Universal health coverage in the Philippines : progress on financial protection goals (English)

Providing protection against the financial risk of high out-of-pocket health spending is one of the main goals of the Philippines’ health strategy. Yet, as this paper shows using eight household surveys, health spending increased by 150 percent (real) from 2000 to 2012, with the sharpest increases occurring in recent years. The main driver of health spending is medicines, accounting for almost two-thirds of total health spending, and as much as three-quarters...
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Bredenkamp,Caryn; Buisman,Leander Robert.

Universal health coverage in the Philippines : progress on financial protection goals (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 7258 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/610061468184429894

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